(December 9, 2013 at 11:10 pm)StrongWaters Wrote: Christ came for the wicked, not the righteous. Ears open by faith. Ears are seeds of grain. The seed is God's part and it is here. Soil is needed.
That didn't answer the question. A clear and unambiguous message would be far better than the barely-coherent mess you get in many ancient religious texts. At the least, it would avoid the endless battles over interpretation that split devout religious people into tens of thousands of different denominations, sometimes over fairly minor details.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
